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Major Tim dials wrong number from space

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A red-faced Tim Peake has issued an apology from orbit after accidentally dialling the wrong number while calling home to wish his loved ones a merry Christmas from the International Space Station.

“Hello, is this planet Earth?” the British astronaut quipped cheerfully down the line, unaware that in a sausage-fingered moment, he had called a complete stranger.

In a sheepish post on Facebook, he revealed no further details of the Christmas Eve mishap but wrote: “I’d like to apologise to the lady I just called by mistake...not a prank call, just a wrong number!”

Peake, 43, from Chichester in west Sussex, was set to eat Christmas lunch with his five crewmates on the ISS, where he arrived last week on a six-month mission, and will…